"Mark Kent" <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Why 2008 will be a bad year for Microsoft?s Ed Tech market share
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Am I blowing Microsoft?s struggles in Ed Tech out of proportion? It
>>strikes
>>| me that, while Microsoft makes its money at the enterprise level,
>>students
>>| who use Linux-based machines at school will be far more comfortable
>>using
>>| them (and asking for them) when they enter the workforce.
>> `----
>>
>> http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1457
>>
>> "The danger is that Microsoft is using strategic monopolistic pricing in
>> the
>> education market, with the government?s assistance, to turn our state
>> university systems into private workforce training programs for
>> Microsoft."
>>
>> --Nathan Newman
>
> Our own schools have "ict" lessons which are based entirely on the use
> of Microsoft Office; this is one of the most short-sighted education
> policies I've ever seen in action. How many people will use the same
> technology in the workplace as they use in Primary school say? It's
> positively absurd to imagine that technology will not move on in ten
> years.
>
And yet more ass kissing from Kent. Do you have a secret man crush on Roy
Schestowitz or are you naturally a brown noser?
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